Daniel Byndas
@86mookie.bsky.social
Movies/music/miscellaneous musings. Aiming to be as uninteresting and irrelevant here as I was at the other place.
ETERNITY
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HAMNET
Which film should I catch this weekend?
(I may not be able to catch up with whatever I miss.)
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HAMNET
Which film should I catch this weekend?
(I may not be able to catch up with whatever I miss.)
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ETERNITY
-or-
HAMNET
Which film should I catch this weekend?
(I may not be able to catch up with whatever I miss.)
-or-
HAMNET
Which film should I catch this weekend?
(I may not be able to catch up with whatever I miss.)
After ZOOTOPIA 2, went home and fired up the Criterion Channel’s stream. Caught the end of CERTIFIED COPY then a British movie I’ve never heard of called SAPPHIRE, which plays like the first half of an early LAW & ORDER episode. (This is high praise.)
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
After ZOOTOPIA 2, went home and fired up the Criterion Channel’s stream. Caught the end of CERTIFIED COPY then a British movie I’ve never heard of called SAPPHIRE, which plays like the first half of an early LAW & ORDER episode. (This is high praise.)
So a lot of ZOOTOPIA 2 is normal kids fare, but there is a section towards the climax that is really quite affecting.
At a Regal theater for ZOOTOPIA 2 with my family. Start time was 7:20; it’s ten minutes past that time and the trailers haven’t even started yet.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
So a lot of ZOOTOPIA 2 is normal kids fare, but there is a section towards the climax that is really quite affecting.
At a Regal theater for ZOOTOPIA 2 with my family. Start time was 7:20; it’s ten minutes past that time and the trailers haven’t even started yet.
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
At a Regal theater for ZOOTOPIA 2 with my family. Start time was 7:20; it’s ten minutes past that time and the trailers haven’t even started yet.
Yale Football played in their first ever tournament postseason game today. They were down 42-14 halfway through the 3rd quarter and came back to win 43-42.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yale Football played in their first ever tournament postseason game today. They were down 42-14 halfway through the 3rd quarter and came back to win 43-42.
Watching SCROOGED with my son. So far he has no idea who Lee Majors or Robert Goulet or John Houseman or Mary Lou Retton are.
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Watching SCROOGED with my son. So far he has no idea who Lee Majors or Robert Goulet or John Houseman or Mary Lou Retton are.
Reposted by Daniel Byndas
There has been a change of plans in my next (now current) free to all Reading Project post. My review of Louis CK's novel INGRAM is going up on its own (with added comments on HAROLD by Steven Wright). Please read!
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Everything Happens for a Reason Other Than Coincidences and Most Things
On "Ingram" by Louis C.K., with ancillary comments on Steven Wright's "Harold"
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November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There has been a change of plans in my next (now current) free to all Reading Project post. My review of Louis CK's novel INGRAM is going up on its own (with added comments on HAROLD by Steven Wright). Please read!
billryan64.substack.com/p/everything...
billryan64.substack.com/p/everything...
Is this the dartboard method for movie releases? Next weekend: Boston, Miami, Topeka, and Reno?
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I opens this weekend in Los Angeles, Seattle, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. For the @latimes.com, I made the case for one of the year's singular films.
Review: 'My Undesirable Friends' puts us front row as a real-life Russian TV channel unravels
Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a changing media climate for reporters.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Is this the dartboard method for movie releases? Next weekend: Boston, Miami, Topeka, and Reno?
Was it legal before this?
Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
The gender-motivated murder of a woman will now be covered by a distinct clause in Italian law - punishable by a life sentence.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Was it legal before this?
Still not a fan of PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Still not a fan of PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES.
Watching SHERLOCK JR with my son again and a) the score on the Criterion Channel is a bit overstated.. and b) it still might be the best movie I’ve ever seen.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Watching SHERLOCK JR with my son again and a) the score on the Criterion Channel is a bit overstated.. and b) it still might be the best movie I’ve ever seen.
In my seat for Train Dreams. 20 people for a Sunday night screening of a movie that’s been out for 2 weeks (or 3?) and is also on Netflix… fairly impressive, I think?
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In my seat for Train Dreams. 20 people for a Sunday night screening of a movie that’s been out for 2 weeks (or 3?) and is also on Netflix… fairly impressive, I think?
Why not?:
E.T.
Ghostbusters
Fitzcarraldo
Another Woman
E.T.
Ghostbusters
Fitzcarraldo
Another Woman
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Why not?:
E.T.
Ghostbusters
Fitzcarraldo
Another Woman
E.T.
Ghostbusters
Fitzcarraldo
Another Woman
Wife is watching scenes from movie musicals on YouTube tonight. PHANTOM is even worse than I remember. Why Gerard Butler?
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Wife is watching scenes from movie musicals on YouTube tonight. PHANTOM is even worse than I remember. Why Gerard Butler?
Rochester arthouse is playing The Beach Boys instead of their usual Sparks before the screening and it’s a 10000x improvement.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rochester arthouse is playing The Beach Boys instead of their usual Sparks before the screening and it’s a 10000x improvement.
I am at a movie theater that I haven’t been to in twenty years and it looks *exactly* the same. It’s like stepping into a wormhole.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am at a movie theater that I haven’t been to in twenty years and it looks *exactly* the same. It’s like stepping into a wormhole.
Spaceship Earth, Test Track, and the Ratatouille ride are all down at Epcot Center this morning.
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Spaceship Earth, Test Track, and the Ratatouille ride are all down at Epcot Center this morning.
Did you all know that Vince Gill is in the Eagles nowadays? I did not know this.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Did you all know that Vince Gill is in the Eagles nowadays? I did not know this.
Watched FRANKENSTEIN last night and liked it far better than I thought I would.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Watched FRANKENSTEIN last night and liked it far better than I thought I would.
Watched AFTER THE HUNT last week and hated it. It’s one of those movies where no one displays anything approaching normal human behavior, characters only motivated by making the screenwriter’s point at all times. Almost everyone miscast. (Michael Stahlberg still rocks though.)
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Watched AFTER THE HUNT last week and hated it. It’s one of those movies where no one displays anything approaching normal human behavior, characters only motivated by making the screenwriter’s point at all times. Almost everyone miscast. (Michael Stahlberg still rocks though.)
This is where I watched BACK TO THE FUTURE and NAKED GUN 2 1/2 in original release. (Also, much later, THIRTEEN.)
southampton theater, upper detail, montauk highway, southhampton, new york, 1989
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is where I watched BACK TO THE FUTURE and NAKED GUN 2 1/2 in original release. (Also, much later, THIRTEEN.)
VERIZON: Here’s a new perk for you: pay us $15/month more!
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
VERIZON: Here’s a new perk for you: pay us $15/month more!
Let’s hope so. I wish I had the money.
Could Geneva’s movie theater make a comeback? | Fingerlakes1.com
A year after Geneva Movieplex 8 shut its doors, talks are underway to possibly bring movies back, according to the Finger Lakes Times. Bob Ohmann, owner of Lyons’ Ohmann Theater, confirmed he’s been i...
www.fingerlakes1.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Let’s hope so. I wish I had the money.